I am delighted to have this opportunity to introduce you to First Baptist Church. This website will help you to get to know us and will serve as an orientation to our church. With the desire that you might be drawn into our fellowship, let us explain some distinctives that we at First Baptist believe are very important.
Christ Himself is the very life of this church. Everything in this body of believers revolves around Him. This church is His church Christ is recognized as Lord here. He is the Alpha and Omega of our lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer, our everything! We are a group of people who have believed upon Christ, love Christ, follow Christ, obey Christ, and serve Christ. This describes who we are we are all about Christ!
Baptist defines our theological and historical distinctive. We are Baptists by conviction, a people who stand in a great line of those who have gone before us. This godly line can be traced back to the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. As with our forefathers, we believe in the full inspiration and authority of Scripture, salvation by grace alone, the baptism of believers only by immersion, the priesthood of believers, the eternal security of the redeemed, and more. These God-exalting truths mark our identity.
Church also describes who we are. This word church means, the called out ones. Accordingly, we are those who have been called out of darkness by the power of God into the light of His kingdom. We have been drawn by the Spirit into fellowship with Christ. We are in the world, but no longer are of the world. We are the church the called out ones.
First Baptist Church this is our name. But, it is more than merely a name. We are a congregation who have been redeemed by Christ, who support one another in loving fellowship, who hold to historic Baptist tenants, and who are called out of the world to be the church of God.
We would like to encourage you to browse our website and get familiar with who we are and what we offer. Or sit back and listen to one of several messages from Gods Word.
Paul C. Bowser Sr.